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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1897
Page
7
A Paris exhibition feature showcases a rapid shoe production process with fifty seven operators and forty two machines completing a pair of sides boots in twenty minutes. The detailed workflow lists leather cloth buttons tacks nails and thread as key inputs. The note references Scribners Tobeles and Piso's Cure with various assorted consumer items and odd snippets from period ads and health claims.
A Creonshuryg blacksmith’s cat in Tadlas displays training by bowing, juggling, and stepping to music. It wears a suit downtown on Sundays and greets ladies with a hat tip. The feline smokes, chews, and drinks beer, but ignores mice and rats, showing odd, humanlike habits.
A Paris restaurant tale ends in a quarrel over a pearl found in an oyster. A diner insists the pearl is his and the owner offers to buy it from the finder, but the jeweler later reveals the pearl is an imitation. The expected prize turns into a comical loss for the diners.
An old advertisement extols Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound as a remedy for female ailments. It claims the product relieves headaches, backache, nervousness, and lassitude and cites a testimonial from Mrs. Kina of Philadelphia praising its effects after years of illness and several doctors.
A Sworn statement from WM Walton of Anamosa praises Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People. He reports dramatic relief for his wife from venereal pain and nervous ailments after using the pills, noting bowel regulation and renewed vitality. Another endorsement from Mrs G Ts Bell, wife of a Jones County hardware merchant, cites relief from severe headaches after trying the pills and urges others to keep them on hand.
The first week of the month saw the largest settler movement in North Dakota history. A Great Northern Railway train from St Paul on April 2 carried 162 cars of passengers, goods, and farm implements in five sections, totaling 1,567 people from Indiana, Virginia, Missouri and others. The Dunkers or German Baptist Brethren join Turtle Mountain and Devils Lake colonies, with many expected to settle on government land. The group adds to North Dakota’s population, now with seventeen Dunker settlements along the railway line.
A fragmentary excerpt presents a domestic dialogue about staying out late with uncertain speakers. The text reads like a stray line from a broader humor or dialect piece, lacking clear names, dates, or places for fuller attribution.
Fragmentary OCR copy notes constipation treatment with Cascaret and references to chloroform dosing. Appears as an unstable, historical health advertisement with unreliable details and unclear sources.
A fragmented ad-like passage touts Hostetlers Stamachit ter t as a professional remedy for rheumatic pain and stomach disorders. It warns of rhonntatlina aneheeked leading to heart attacks and urges use of the tonic to ease fever, dyspepsia, and related ailments.
The Northern Steamship Company will inaugurate the fourth season of passenger service on the Great Lakes. Schedules: eastbound ships leave Duluth on Tuesdays and Saturdays, June 18 westbound from Buffalo on June 18. first sailing from Buffalo on June 18 with return days on Tuesdays and Fridays. Freight service begins April 20 from Duluth. Contact W. B. McNider for rates and berths. Also notes U.S. political history: Daniel Webster declined the vice presidency under Morrison. Zachary Taylor and Morrison died in office.
Speculators and seasoned miners head for the Black Hills as snow clears, pursuing prospecting opportunities. The North-Western Line is pitched as the fastest route with Deadwood service and thorough equipment. Contact Omaha agents for details.
A garbled 19th or early 20th century advertisement mixed with testimonials and product pitches. It touts Hall's Catarrh Care with a one hundred dollar reward for cure, signed endorsements, and lists druggists in Toledo. Additional stray lines tout Casarets and a Sumatra rafflesia note, plus a child soothing salve.
Suffered long with leg sores and erysipelas various chronic skin issues. The letter from Mrs M J Hanknay of Lovett Georgia credits Hood's Sarsaparilla with full relief after multiple remedies failed. She reports weight gain to 160 pounds and enduring improvement after four bottles.
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